Caught on camera, a dramatic end to a Police Pursuit in Southern California overnight. Health alert. The new warning about some popular painkillers. What women need to know. And christmas comes early. The misfit toys from a christmas classic now going up for sale. Good friday morning, everyone. Im mona kosar abdi. Im will reeve. We begin with the race for the white house and those dueling town halls. President trump and former Vice President joe biden taking questions from voters on everything from the coronavirus to the economy. It comes as the pandemic enters a new phase. Doctors reporting a third peak in infections. Meanwhile, the number of americans applying for Unemployment Benefits has jumped to the highest level in nearly two months. We begin our coverage with abcs elizabeth schulze. Good morning, elizabeth. Reporter hey, good morning, mona and will. Trump and biden squared off in separate televised events just as bidens running mate, Kamala Harris, came off the campaign trail.
Caught on camera, a dramatic end to a Police Pursuit in Southern California overnight. Health alert. The new warning about some popular painkillers. What women need to know. And christmas comes early. The misfit toys from a christmas classic now going up for sale. Good friday morning, everyone. Im mona kosar abdi. Im will reeve. We begin with the race for the white house and those dueling town halls. President trump and former Vice President joe biden taking questions from voters on everything from the coronavirus to the economy. It comes as the pandemic enters a new phase. Doctors reporting a third peak in infections. Meanwhile, the number of americans applying for Unemployment Benefits has jumped to the highest level in nearly two months. We begin our coverage with abcs elizabeth schulze. Good morning, elizabeth. Reporter hey, good morning, mona and will. Trump and biden squared off in separate televised events just as bidens running mate, Kamala Harris, came off the campaign trail.
Arrows dow futures indicated down by about 260. Weve seen down 300 this morning. Nasdaq also down sharply down by 200 points and the s p 500 down by about 37 so significant declines after two other days of losses also playing out in the treasury markets as well. If you want to take a look at what is happening there, yields have gone down, right now the ten year is yield iing below 0. a lot of this has to do with renewed lockdowns in europe. Lets get to karen cho who has more on what is happening there. Thank you very much we are witnessing losses across the markets as we contend with more news flow around more severe restrictions. Weve been hearing the last couple hour 24s that there may moves announced later on today, reports from various Media Outlets suggesting that london will move to a tier two restrictions the london mayor has spoken suggesting that the Health Secretary will reveal the changes in the house of commons. No mingling between households currently there is a rule of si
Tracking the strong winds, the peak wind gust with the offshore went 50 to 60 miles an hour earlier this morning, mount st. Helena, mount diablo gusting wind gusts of 63 miles an hour. Mount hood 39 and 38 milean hour wind gusts at the oakland hills. Because of the dusty offshore winds, low relative humidity values, a big concern with the red flag warning that remains in effect now through 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow for all the areas highlighted in red. The northbay and east bay mountains, Santa Cruz Mountains under the red flag morning. We continue to watch humidity levels drop throughout the day today into tomorrow. That is why we are talking about the extreme fire danger. Also looking at dangerously hot temperatures. Likely record breaking highs today into tomorrow which is why the heat advisory for the bay area in effect today and tomorrow. We look at daytimes highs 20 degrees above average this time of year. I can let you know what to expect in your neighborhood coming up in a few minut
Senator ted cruz will join us on why he thinks there should be more backlash for tech power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Im dominic chu. Real estate, financials in the green as well. Technology stocks, though, the worst performing sector in the s p 500. On the dow youve got walgreens, the best performer after its Earnings Report this morning the company expecting 2021 Profit Growth despite the pandemic worst performer, it is vertech pharmaceutical kelly, ill send things back over to you. Thank you very much stocks well off their worst levels of the day. No stimulus, jobless claims higher so are covid cases earnings may be the only hope. To bob pisani for more on that bob. And, kelly, were near the highs for the day but there are reopening worries out there if you look at the markets you can see thats all the travel stocks are weak again so the airlines, expedia, weak, even work from home stuff like ebay, salesforce, same thing mastercard and visa and American Express